Timeline for Does any linguist honestly believe that nouns and verbs are not universals?
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| Feb 13 at 22:18 | history | notice added | curiousdannii♦ | Needs citation | |
| Feb 14, 2015 at 17:07 | comment | added | Greg Lee | @user8144, I don't know. Some Salish languages are supposedly candidates for nounlessness, and, while not familiar with any of them myself, I did have a conversation about this with Larry Thompson. I thought the most likely place to find nouns was people's names, and if I understood Larry correctly, there are some personal names in those languages that don't have verb roots. | |
| Feb 14, 2015 at 16:57 | comment | added | user8144 | Are saying that there are languages where "sun" is not a noun, and "eat" is not a verb? I just can't believe it. | |
| Feb 14, 2015 at 13:51 | history | answered | Greg Lee | CC BY-SA 3.0 |